Ang Lee’s wartime drama Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk tanked in its expansion from four to 1,176 cinemas with a mere $930,000 (£753,000).

The film cost a reported $40 million (£32.3 million) to produce.

Other more modestly budgeted films also struggled, including high school comedy The Edge Of Seventeen, which earned $4.8 million (£3.8 million), and the boxing drama Bleed For This, which took in $2.4 million (£1.9 million).